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1925. The first open heart surgery by English surgeon Henry Souttar. 1929. Werner Forssmann performed the first cardiac catheterization, on himself. 1931. The first sex reassignment surgery. 1940. The first successful metallic hip replacement surgery. 1948. The first successful open heart surgery operations since 1925. 1952.
Couching is the earliest-documented form of cataract surgery, and one of the oldest surgical procedures ever performed. In this technique, the lens is dislodged and pushed aside into the vitreous cavity, but not removed from the eye, thus removing the opacity from the visual axis, but also the ability to focus. [10]
The first successful surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on September 4, 1895, at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The first successful surgery of the heart, performed without any complications, was by Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt , Germany , who repaired a stab wound to the right ...
After the innovative first completion of the surgery, Blalock became comfortable with the procedure and performed it on thousands of children, often with Thomas by his side. The new operation not only directly saved thousands of lives, it marked the start of the modern era of cardiac surgery, as it was the first successful surgery on the human ...
A long list of advancements made in surgery and medicine have allowed transgender people to undergo gender confirmation surgery in ways far more successfully and safely executed than ever before.
On 13 October 1804, Hanaoka performed a partial mastectomy for breast cancer on a 60-year-old woman named Kan Aiya, using tsūsensan as a general anaesthetic. This is generally regarded today as the first reliable documentation of an operation to be performed under general anesthesia.
Liston became the first Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College Hospital in London in 1835. [ 2 ] [ 25 ] He performed the first public operation utilising modern anaesthesia, ether, in Europe on 21 December 1846 at the University College Hospital. [ 26 ]
A team of Earth-based doctors have performed the first ever remote-controlled surgery in space using a robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS).. The successful procedure, which saw ...